AIBU Books - Part 3

[MoominMymbleandMy]

I can't get into the old thread so I think we filled it up! I hope everyone finds the new one.

So nice, shiny new thread, nice shiny new AIBU.

AIBU to be jealous of my DH's correspondence with a stranger?

Pogle, I feel I ought to know yours but I'm not getting anywhere.

Maria, this isn't ringing bells at all now. Doh!

Did he say "Humph," Pogle?

Not Kingscote but a rather more cosmopolitan establishment!

Aargh! Don't know! Now this one is going to bug me all night..

...No,not 'Humph' - she is female actually,a splendid animal...

Ooh, you don't happen to live at Blandings, do you?

...Cosmopolitan in that our pupils are drawn from all over Europe though sadly there have been fewer since the War...

That was super fast,Moomin - I should've been more cryptic! I do love Lord Emsworth,and there are many interesting Aunts involved too!

You're not running the Chalet School,are you? (though I wouldn't have thought Forever Amber would have got as far as being banned there - surely no Chalet School girl would want to read it? )

Hooray!

And yes, you are absolutely right again, Pogle. It is the Chalet School and I'm afraid one of the pupils brought back a copy of Forever Amber and read it aloud to her chums! Rather a bad hat called Jennifer, as I recall. Obviously not destined to marry a doctor and produce a string of new pupils.

AIBU to lock myself away in the cabin?

Hmm - cabin as in 'in the wood' or cabin as in 'plane' (not that I have umpteen ideas waiting for either!)

Off to bed now - goodnight!

I am feeling so thick. I haven't got one for ages ... who was your Duchess, Moomin? You should see my Amazon search history - they're recommending all sorts of odd things for me now!

And most annoyingly, I haven't been writing down all the lovely book suggestions as we went along, so I'm going to have to trawl back over 2000 posts to get them all ...

AIBU to borrow a library book?

CJ! Nooo! No flouncing or banging your poor head, we all have fallow periods and it's obvious you've been very busy because otherwise you'd be here .

The Duchess is the Duchess of Ravenspur, Amber St Clare, who makes Becky Sharp seem a sweet, demure type, and the novel is Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor.

It has the honour of having been banned in umpteen US states when it was published (in the late 40's, I think) and of being denounced by the Vatican and the Chalet School. It would really appeal to your flibberty-gibbet side.

I was thinking only tonight I have to go back and write all these titles down while I can still remember the solutions!

...It's my father's cabin and it's on board his ship. I'm terrified of the sea...

Oh, and is it in the restricted section?

Ah, good guess, Moomin, but no ...

Thanks for filling in the gaps. Must, must, must do that list. And no further on your seasick boy, I'm afraid. If he is a boy?!

CJ, another clue for the library book please?

...I'm not a boy, I'm a girl. And I'm not seasick, I'm frightened of the sea. My mamma was too, and she died...

I'm sure you'll enjoy it, llandb, but bear in mind people must have been easily shocked back in the good old days.

...It is a bit dull in my cabin and it's very small because it's really a big store cupboard. That is quite useful because I've been able to live on the preserves my dear Mamma stored before she died. But you do get bit tired of plum jelly and sassefras after almost a year, and of washing in a bowl of water passed through the hatch...

Oh and WIBU to dye my hair? Now it's for the chop!

I told you not to buy things from pedlars who come to the door! And of course you can't go out with green hair!

Yes, Marilla (hangs head)

I don't often get to the library, my life is so busy. But I find I've quite enjoyed the book I took out last week, so I think I'll get another one.

God, Anne of green gables, and the Chalet school in my absence - two I might have had a fighting chance of getting!!

No ideas on Moomin's............

Hi Poledra, hope you've all recovered now.

CJ, I am mystified. More help, please!

...I wish I could go home. But whaling ships are at sea for such a long time. And even when I do get home I've got my horrible aunt coming to look after me...

Not you doing aunts now, Moomin! Eeek!

Can't think of any more hair-sacrificers and stumped all round, so off for a kip, perchance to figure out answers - 'night, all!

Moomin, are you good at maths? Is your name a virtue followed by the ability to travel at a steady pace?

I don't think I'm good at maths, VM . No, I don't appear to be. But I do have a very virtuous name, doubly so, in fact!

Afternoon all!

...And if Papa goes hunting for the pink whale again we're going to be at sea even longer...

CJ, please, another clue for the library book. At the moment all I can think of is Janet and John visit the Library!